Threads and Interpreter death

[Bryan Olson]

Rene Pijlman wrote:
> Carl J. Van Arsdall:
> 
>>I've been toying with threads a lot lately and I've noticed that if a 
>>scripting error occurs in a thread the thread dies, but not the process 
>>that spawned the thread.
>>
>>Is python supposed to behave this way or is this type of behavior 
>>accidental?
> 
> 
> "start_new_thread(function, args[, kwargs])
> When the function terminates with an unhandled exception, a stack trace is
> printed and then the thread exits (but other threads continue to run)."
> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-thread.html

And you might also want to see threading.thread's setDaemon() method:

     The entire Python program exits when no active non-daemon
     threads are left.

     http://docs.python.org/lib/thread-objects.html


-- 
--Bryan